Breech-loading gun.



Nd. 781,179. I PATENTBD JAN. 31, 1905.

, T. G. BENNETT.

BREEGH LOADING GUN.

APPLICATION FILED OOT. e, 1904.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

PATENTED JAN. 81, 1905.

T. G. BENNETT. BREEUH LOADING GUN.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 6, 1904.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

No. 781,179. I Patented January 31, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEETEE,

THOMAS G. IBENNETT, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WIN- CHESTER REPEATING ARMS COMPANY, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT,

A CORPORATION.

BREECH-LOADING GUN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 781,179, dated January 31, 1905.

7 Application filed October 6, 1904. Serial No. 227,426.

To whom it y COW/067"! varying, as they do, in details of construc- Be it known that I, THOMAS Gr. BENNETT, a tion; It seems to me, however, suificient for citizen of the United States, residing at New the illustration of my invention to show it as Haven, in the county of New Haven and State embodied in two finger-lever guns.

5 of Connecticut, have invented a new and use- In carrying out my invention as shown in ful Improvement in Breech-Loading Guns; Figs. 1 to 3 of the drawings the sliding lockand I do hereby declare the following, when ing-block 2 extends transversely across the taken in connection with the accompanying rear portion of a chamber 3, formed in the drawings and the numerals of reference gun-frame 4, each of the side walls of the IQ marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact block being formed with two interlocking description of the same, and which said drawribs 5 and 6, respectively, extending forward ingsconstitute part of this specification, and and rearward and entering grooves 7, formed represent, in for their reception in the side walls 8 of the Figure 1, a broken view, partly in side elegun-frame 4. It will be readily understood 5 vation and partly in vertical section, of a that any tendency that the side walls might breech-loading finger-lever gun constructed have to be forced apart under the rearward in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a thrust of heavy pressures in the gun-barrel broken plan view thereof; Fig. 3, a detached will be resisted by the ribs 5 and 6. At its view, in rear elevation, of the locking-block. lower end the locking-block 2 is formed with 20 Figs. tand 5 are detached plan views of moditrunnions 10, by means of which it is confied forms which the locking-block may asnected with a link 11, operated by a finger- 7o sume; Fig. 6, a broken View, in side elevation, lever 12 of well-known construction. When of another form of finger-lever gun provided the block is raised, by means of the link 11 with my improved locking-block; Fig. 7, a and finger-lever 12, its upper end engages 5 broken plan View thereof; Fig. 8, a detached with the rear end of the bolt 13 and breeches plan view of the locking-block; Fig. 9, a view the same up. At the beginning of the open- 7 5 thereof in rear elevation; Figs. 10, 11, and ing of the gun the block is moved down- 12, detached plan views of modified forms ward out of the Way before the bolt starts on which the block may assume. its rearward movement. 3 My invention relates to an improvement in In the modified form shown by Fig. 4 the the locking-blocks of breech-loading guns, locking-block 14 is formed on each of its side the object being to utilize such locking-blocks walls with a single forwardly-extending interfor tying the opposite side walls of the gun locking rib 15, which takes into correspondframes or receivers together, so as to prevent ing grooves formed in the side walls of the 35 them from spreading under pressures develgun-frame in a manner too obvious to need oped by firing the guns. illustration, whereby the side walls will be ith these ends in view my invention contied together and prevented from spreading sists in a breech-loading gun having a lockby the locking-block Without interfering with ing-block located between the opposite side the movement thereof up and down.

4 walls of the gun-frame and interlocked there- In the modified form shown by Fig. 5 of the with, so as to tie the same together when the drawings the locking-block 16 has its end walls gun is breeched. shaped to form dovetail ribs 17, which take My invention further consists in certain deinto corresponding dovetail grooves formed tails of construction and combination of parts, in the opposite side walls of the gun-frame and 45 as will be hereinafter described, and pointed tie the same together.

out in the claims. In Figs. 6 to 9, inclusive, of the drawings I My invention, as I may here state, is aphave shown my improvement as embodied in plicable to the construction of substantially a breech-loading finger-lever gun of the class all locking-blocks for breech-loading guns, in which the locking-block engages with the breech-bolt at a point forward of the rear end thereof. In this construction the locking block consists of two corresponding members 18, having their lower ends united by a screw 19, passing through a sleeve 20, interposed between them, the block being connected by the said screw 19 and sleeve 20 with the fingerlever 21, which is formed for the purpose with an inclined slot 22, through which the sleeve and screw pass. The forward and rear edges of the two members 18 of the block are formed with locking-ribs 23 23 and 24 and 2%, the ribs 23 and 23* taking into grooves 25 and 25 formed in the adjacent side walls of the gunframe 27, and the ribs 24 and 24 taking into grooves 28, formed in the adjacent side faces of the breech-bolt 29. Under this construc tion the locking-block couples the side walls of the gun-frame to. the breech-bolt, which then virtually forms a part of the lockingblock for tying the two sides of the gun-frame together.

Breech-loading guns like that shown in Figs. 6 to 9 are too common to need detailed description; but it may be said that after the breech-bolt 29 has reached its fully-closed position it is breeched up and held in that position by the lifting of the locking-block, which is depressed preparatory to the opening of the gun. I

In the modified construction shown by Fig. 10 of the drawings the members 30 80 of the block are provided only on their forward edges with locking-ribs 31.

In the modified construction shown by Fig. 11 the two members 32 32 of the block are formed with dovetails 33 33, while in the construction shown by Fig. 12 the two members 3 3 1 have their forward outer edges formed with locking-ribs 35, which take into the side walls of the receiver, and their inner rear edges formed with locking-ribs 36, which take into the side walls of the bolt.

It is apparent, in view of the foregoing, that locking-blocks constructed in accordance with my invention may be applied to a great variety of breech-loading guns and may assume a great variety of forms. I would therefore have it understood that I do not limit myself to the constructions shown and described, but hold myself at liberty to make such departures therefrom as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a breech-loading gun, the combination with the gun-frame thereof, of alocking-block constructed to be interlocked with the opposite side walls of the said gun-frame for tying the same together against spreading under pressures developed by the explosion of acartridge in the gun.

2. In a breech-loading gun, the combination with the gun-frame and breech-bolt thereof, of a two-part locking-block constructed to be interlocked with the opposite side walls of the said gun-frame and bolt for tying the said side walls of the frame together against spreading under pressure developed by theexplosion of the cartridge in the gun.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

THOMAS Gr. BENNETT. Witnesses:

DANIEL H. VEADER, THOMAS C. JoHNsoN. 

